The State Human Rights Commission (CEDHJ) this week called out the state police for the “intimidation” of two mothers desperate to retrieve the bodies of their sons from the morgue of the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences on Monday.
Two years after their children had been officially identified, Consuelo Martinez and Guadalupe Ayala were summoned to collect the corpses of their offspring. After a five-hour wait outside the Tlaquepaque building without being summoned, they decided to walk through the parking lot and seek personal attention. Within five minutes, nine police patrols arrived to stop them, according to witnesses.
“That’s how quickly they should have acted when their children were reported disappeared,” one bystander shouted out.
According to the CEDHJ, the women “posed no threat, but (had) legitimate outrage and a demand for the commitment to be fulfilled.”
The agency urged the IJCF “to expedite the procedures and delivery of bodies of deceased persons who have already been identified by their next of kin.”